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Duration8 days / 7 nights
AccommodationStandard hotel / ger
Meals7 breakfasts, 6 lunches, 6 dinners
GuideEnglish guide
Price2 people: $1,830
Departure pointChinggis Khaan Airport| Tour code | MO-42 |
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| Number of days | 8 days / 7 nights |
| Departure point | Chinggis Khaan Airport |
| Accommodation | Standard hotel / ger |
| Meals | 7 breakfasts, 6 lunches, 6 dinners |
| Hotel used | Standard room |
| Local guide | English guide |
| Minimum number of participants | From 1 person |
| Booking method | Book online |
| Local tour price | 2 people: $1,830 |
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| 1 Day | Ulaanbaatar Transport: private car Depart Narita or Haneda. Connect in Seoul to Ulaanbaatar. The English-speaking guide takes you to the hotel. | Dinner: not included | City hotel🏨 |
| 2 Day | Ulaanbaatar → South Gobi Transport: private car At 08:00 enjoy a car journey. To Dalanzadgad in the South Gobi, about 6 hours. Afternoon, Yolyn Am Valley and the Gobi Nature Museum. Yolyn Am Valley is a place where a thick glacial layer and splendid green pasture coexist. In summer rain, waterfalls sometimes appear from the rocks. It is also famous for letting you see a great variety of animals and plants up close. | Breakfast: ○ Lunch: ○ Dinner: ○ | Stay at a tourist camp⛺ |
| 3 Day | South Gobi → Khongor Sand Dunes Transport: private car After breakfast, head to the great Khongor Sand Dunes, boasting the greatest height in Mongolia. (220 km from South Gobi Airport, about 4–5 hours) After arriving, a picnic at the Khongor dunes. Sightseeing at the great Khongor dunes. Also ride camels. Among the many dunes of the Gobi Desert, the one of incomparable scale is the great Khongor dune, 220 km from the South Gobi. These great dunes boast a height of 800 m and a width of 3.5 km, the tallest in Mongolia. Please enjoy the moving desert scenery. | Breakfast: ○ Lunch: ○ Dinner: ○ | Stay at a tourist camp⛺ |
| 4 Day | Khongor Sand Dunes → Ongi Monastery Transport: private car After breakfast, head to Bayanzag by private car. See the Bayanzag cliffs where dinosaurs were discovered. Move to Ongi Monastery in the Central Gobi. | Breakfast: ○ Lunch: ○ Dinner: ○ | Stay at a tourist camp⛺ |
| 5 Day | Ongi Monastery → Karakorum Transport: private car Morning: after seeing Ongi Monastery, move to Karakorum, about 5 hours. After arriving at Karakorum, sightseeing at the World Heritage Karakorum ruins. (Erdene Zuu, Turtle Rock, Karakorum Museum) | Breakfast: ○ Lunch: ○ Dinner: ○ | Tourist Camps⛺ |
| 6 Day | Karakorum → Burd Transport: private car In the morning, leave Karakorum sightseeing and move to Burd on the grand steppe, about 1.2 hours. Afternoon, horse riding experience. Receive an explanation from the nomads and set out on a riding experience with your horse onto the grand steppe. Enjoy the horse riding experience. Nomad homestay. | Breakfast: ○ Lunch: ○ Dinner: ○ | Nomad's ger⛺ |
| 7 Day | Burd → Ulaanbaatar Transport: private car Morning: move from Burd to Ulaanbaatar. Afternoon: Ulaanbaatar city sightseeing. Gandan Monastery, the Dinosaur Museum, Chinggis Khaan Square, Zaisan Hill and more. At 18:00 enjoy a performance by the Mongolian traditional music orchestra. | Breakfast: ○ Lunch: ○ Dinner: ○ | City hotel🏨 |
| 8 Day | Ulaanbaatar Transport: private car By private car to Chinggis Khaan Airport for your send-off. Thank you for your hard work. | Breakfast: ○ | - |
*Itinerary and times may change depending on weather and road conditions.
People who do not know the Gobi Desert tend to imagine a barren desert without a blade of grass, like the Sahara, but the real Mongolian Gobi has various types. "Gobi" in Mongolian means land with sparse short grass, and although the image is of a barren desert without a single plant, the desert actually makes up only 25% of the country's area. In this land camel herding is most common. Many dinosaur fossils have also been excavated here, stirring romance for the ancient past. The Moltsog dunes, about 50 km north of the South Gobi airfield, offer scenery exactly like the image Japanese people have of the Gobi Desert.
The Gobi Desert spreads across southern Mongolia. Much of it is desert with pebbles and low shrubs, but about 200 km from South Gobi, large sand dunes suddenly appear. The dunes, which continue like mountains as far as you can see, are more than about 50 m high. At the foot of the dunes there is a rare landscape with grassland, grass and short trees growing, and small rivers flowing. You often see camels trekking with tourists. This course lets you enjoy the moving scenery of these dunes, said to be No. 1 in Mongolia. Of course you also stay in a ger from which you can see the dunes. Staying in great nature with no man-made objects as far as you can see makes you completely forget daily life. In slow-flowing time, stroll across the dunes on a camel, and at night look up at the starry sky, and you will truly feel embraced by Mongolian nature.
In the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan Mountains there is a beautiful place called Yolyn Am. Yolyn Am means "Valley of the Eagles" in Mongolian. Indeed eagles fly above the valley, and you can understand the name. The valley is at a high altitude of 2,200 m, and snow remains here even in early summer. In midsummer the snow melts, but the valley without snow is cool and pleasant. On a hot summer day it is fun to walk on the ice in the valley. Wild sheep and goats, wolves, Gobi bears, vultures and wild asses also live here.
Mongolia has many highlights besides the steppe. In the cultural landscape area known as the Orkhon Valley, many ruins and historic sites remain, and the most famous is the Karakorum ruins. When the Mongol and Turkic nomads who have long lived in Mongolia founded their states, they chose the Orkhon River basin for their capitals. Chinggis Khaan also ordered the capital of the Mongol Empire to be established there. By his order, the city of Karakorum was built in 1235, and it is famous for having been, for a time, the center of the world. Erdene Zuu of the Karakorum ruins is one of Mongolia's World Heritage Sites. Suddenly appearing in the steppe, the ruins consist of 108 striking white stupas and outer walls surrounding the Buddhist temple, a group of monasteries with a long history in Mongolia. A little walk from the ruins is Turtle Rock, and the site where the "Karakorum History Museum" was built by a joint project of the Mongolian Cabinet and JICA with Japanese ODA.
Burd on the SteppeBurd (Elsen Tasarkhai Desert) is located 280 km west of Ulaanbaatar and is the central point of Mongolia. It is a place of superb scenery where grassland, rocky mountains, streams, lakes and ponds lie together. Burd, with its typically Mongolian steppe rich in flowers, is the gateway for sightseeing. The nomads have long worshipped Mount Khugnu Khan in the north of Burd, which is now protected as a "protected area" and is home to rare animals and plants.
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Operating conditions and notes |
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Booking deadline |
For tour bookings, please book at least 15 days before departure (excluding public holidays). If a booking is made after that, we will first reply to you by email to confirm that we can reach each other reliably before we start the arrangements. Bookings 7 days or more before departure will be accommodated as far as possible, so please consult us. (Cancellation charges start from 10 days before, so please note.) Please check the usage guide before booking. |
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Price notes |
This course operates from 2 people, but we can accept a booking for 1 person. In that case an additional charge for a one-person departure and a single-room supplement apply. Please ask us for the price of a one-person departure before booking. |
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Payment method |
After you reserve by email and phone, we will send a travel confirmation and an invoice to your email address. After checking the invoice, transfer 50% of the tour price to our bank account. The booking becomes official after we confirm receipt. The remaining 50% is paid by bank transfer before the trip starts. |
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Included in the tour price |
Meal costs and service charges stated in the itinerary Accommodation costs and service charges stated in the itinerary Sightseeing costs stated in the itinerary (guide fee, admission fees) Domestic flights or free internet and water |
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Not included in the tour price |
Round-trip international airfare or international train fare Optional tour fees Overseas travel insurance Personal souvenirs Beer, liquor and other alcoholic drinks |
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Cancellation fees |
From 18:00 local time 10 business days before the tour date to 18:00 local time 8 business days before: 20% of the total booking amount From 18:00 local time 7 business days before the tour date to 18:00 local time 5 business days before: 30% of the total booking amount From 18:00 local time 4 business days before the tour date to 18:00 local time 2 business days before: 40% of the total booking amount From 18:00 local time 2 business days before the tour date to 1 business day before: 50% of the total booking amount On the tour date: 100% of the total booking amount |
How to Book
1. Inquiry
Please tell us your dates, number of people and flight information.
2. Itinerary and quote
We will send you an itinerary and a quote.
3. Booking
Please send a copy of your passport (up to 15 days before departure).
4. Travel confirmation and invoice
We will send you a travel confirmation and an invoice.
5. Payment
Transfer 50% of the invoiced amount (the booking is confirmed after we confirm receipt). Please transfer the remaining 50% before departure.
For participation conditions, cancellation rules and more, please seeMongolia Travel Guide/Basic Information.



Booking and Inquiries
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